Use of social media by the library

Social media has the potential to facilitate much closer relationships between libraries and their patrons, wherever they are based, and however they choose to access library services and resources.

This white paper has been researched and compiled by Taylor & Francis to provide an overview of current practices relating to the use by libraries of social media, from a world-wide perspective, against which individual institutions can benchmark their own activities and be inspired to try new approaches.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/libsite/whitepapers/socialmedia/index.asp

UNIMARC in China and the Publishing of Chinese Edition of UNIMARC Manual: Authorities Format

I have just published a new article in Library Journal, published by Shanghai Library:

UNIMARC在中国以及《UNIMARC手册：规范格式》中文版的出版

UNIMARC in China and the Publishing of Chinese Edition of UNIMARC Manual: Authorities Format

Details can be found at the following site:

http://www.libnet.sh.cn:8081/tsgzz/CN/Y2014/V33/I10/108

Fifth National Conference on Library Acquisitions, Tianjin, China, September 24-27, 2014

The Fifth National Conference on Library Acquisitions was held in Tianjin, China, September 24-27, 2014. With about 180 participants from library, publishing and book trade communities, it was a great success.

Report (with video) by the CNTV is available at:

http://kejiao.cntv.cn/2014/10/23/ARTI1414056440387383.shtml

High quality video is also available at:

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/LvWjZS5h9ag/

Han Yongjin: Innovative services in the National Library of China

IFLA Journal, Volume 40, Issue 3 (October 2014) is just published today. There are nine articles by national librarians around the world, including the one by Mr. HAN Yongjin, Director-General of the National Library of China.

Innovative services in the National Library of China / HAN Yongjin

Abstract:

In recent years, librarianship in China has encountered new opportunities and challenges due to unprecedented changes in the political, economic, social and technical environment in China. In order to keep up with these changes, the National Library of China is devoted to the transformation of libraries in innovative ways. It has undertaken much exploration in the development of digital libraries, social education, preservation and conservation of cultural heritages and integration and display of library resources. It has also launched major projects including the Digital Library Promotion Project and 'Chinese Memory' and built the National Museum of Classic Collections to promote extensive reading activities. All these efforts have achieved positive results.

Address of the article:

http://ifl.sagepub.com/content/40/3/202.full

TOC of the issue:

http://ifl.sagepub.com/content/40/3.toc

Full text of the whole issue will be available at the IFLA website:

http://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-journal

ISBD in China: The Road to Internationalization

My article "ISBD in China: The Road to Internationalization" is published in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Vol. 52, Issue 8 (October 2014).

Abstract:

The article discusses the historical background, present status, and future perspectives of International Standard for Bibliographic Description (ISBD) translations, research, and applications in China. It also analyzes the relationship between ISBD and Chinese Library Cataloging Rules and the internationalization process of Chinese library cataloging practices.

Available online since September 26, 2014:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2014.920944

My Report of the IFLA Conference (WLIC) Published

My report of the 80th IFLA General Conference (WLIC2014, Lyon, France) was published in China Publishing & Media Journal, September 16, p. 8.

The report focuses on my general impressions, ISBD-related activities, IFLA Journal Editorial Committee meeting and the cataloguing-related programme.

http://www.cnepaper.com/zgtssb/html/2014-09/16/content_8_1.htm

Chinese speaker at the WLIC2014

Chinese speaker at the Session of  the Libraries for Children and Young Adults with Literacy and Reading:
Prof. Man SHU from the School of Economics & Management, South China Normal University, Guang Zhou, China.
http://library.ifla.org/826/

Meeting friends during the IFLA General Conference

Meeting friends during the conference is always a great pleasure, although there is no time to talk with them.
With Prof. Mauro Guerrini, former President of the Italian Library Association:

With Serap Kurbanoglu, a Turkish professor of library and information science:

With Jaesun Lee, former cataloging expert from the National Library of Korea:

Chinese Interpreters at WLIC2014

Chinese interpreters at the IFLA General Conference (WLIC2014).

Chinese Caucus Meeting during WLIC2014

Photos from the Chinese Caucus Meeting during the IFLA General Conference, August 16, 2014

Leaving for Lyon soon

I will leave for Paris and Lyon this weekend. This will be my third time to visit Paris, the most romantic city in the world.

SCATNews Published

The latest issue of SCATNews: Newsletter of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section (Number 41, ISSN 1022-9841, June 2014) is published. I wrote an article for this issue and talked about the activities related to RDA in China.

http://www.ifla.org/cataloguing/newsletter

SCATNews Published

The latest issue of SCATNews: Newsletter of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section (Number 41, ISSN 1022-9841, June 2014) is published. I wrote an article for this issue and talked about the activities related to RDA in China.

http://www.ifla.org/cataloguing/newsletter

SCATNews Published

The latest issue of SCATNews: Newsletter of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section (Number 41, ISSN 1022-9841, June 2014) is published. I wrote an article for this issue and talked about the activities related to RDA in China.
http://www.ifla.org/cataloguing/newsletter

RDA in Translation - Chinese

The page for "RDA in Translation - Chinese" at the web site of RDA also mentions the availability of the Chinese edition at the douban.com site:

http://www.rdatoolkit.org/translation/Chinese

I read two books on RDA these days. One is RDA: from Theory to Practice by ZHOU Deming, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Library. The other is Chinese Cataloging and RDA by Prof. WANG Songlin, a well-known scholar.

Prof. WANG Songlin's "Chinese Cataloging and RDA" Published

Today, I received Prof. WANG Songlin's new book "Chinese Cataloging and RDA" published by the Ocean Press (Beijing) in June 2014.

As one of a series of textbooks for library and information professionals, this is a good book for people to get a general idea of RDA.

Prof. Wang is a well-known scholar in Chinese library cataloging community. He published a number of monographs on information organization, attended IME ICC4 in Seoul, 2006, and just retired in 2013.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: ISBD and its Developments

Chapter 3: Access Points and Headings in Chinese Cataloging

Chapter 4: CNMARC and its XMLization

Chapter 5: RDA Entities and Attributes

Chapter 6: RDA Relationships

Chapter 7: MARC Application of RDA

Chapter 8: Linked Data and RDA

Bibliography

Bibliography Complex: Fundamentals of Librarianship and Knowledge Management

A Review of "Bibliography Complex: Fundamentals of Librarianship and Knowledge Management" edited by Karl Min Ku, translated by Zhijian Tao. Singapore: Cengage Learning Asia, 2013. xxiii, 285 p. ISBN 978-981-4384-20-9. $150.00

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

Volume 52, Issue 3, 2014

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2013.879631

Chinese Edition of RDA Published

Today, I am glad to receive the first sample copy of the Chinese edition of RDA (Resource Description and Access).

The translating and editing process lasted for two years. It is finally published.

More bibliographic details:

http://book.douban.com/subject/25890307/

In memory of an old friend

Mrs. Frances Lau passed away last month, just three weeks after we met her in Beijing.

http://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?n=frances-shui-sin-lau-wong&pid=170667841&

CozyBo2k opens today

Just before the World Book and Copyright Day on April 23, the opening ceremony of CozyBo2k was held today.

CozyBo2k is actually a new English name for the Foreign Languages Bookstore of the China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation (CNPIEC).

CozyBo2k is located just beside the building of the CNPIEC.

My Comic Portrait and Bronze Relief

These are my comic portrait by Laoduo (HAN Ying) in February 2011 and bronze relief by Anjianda (JIA Fang) in February 2014:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/guben/sets/72157640422711605/

ECIL (European Conference on Information Literacy)

We like to share with you the recent news regarding ECIL 2014:

Website for ECIL 2014 is ready ( http://www.ecil2014.org ). Second Call for Papers will be released soon. This year our keynote speakers are Dr. Michael Eisenberg and Dr. David Bawden. Please note that abstract submission deadline is March 16. Proceedings Book will be again published by Springer under its CCIS series. We look forward to receiving your contributions and we will appreciate very much if you share this information with your colleagues whom might be interested.

If you like to access ECIL 2013 papers:

ECIL 2013 Proceedings Book has been published http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0 

ECIL 2013 presentations (ppt files) are now available on the conference website  http://ecil2013.ilconf.org/program/ Just click on the links in the program. 

ECIL 2013 Book of Abstracts which includes abstracts of all contributions is available on conference website http://ecil2013.ilconf.org/ Please click on the book cover on the right hand side.

Hope to meet you all at ECIL 2014 in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 20-23 October. Warm regards,

MARC Formats in China: Local or International?

"MARC Formats in China: Local or International?" is my new paper published in JLIS.it (Journal of Library and Information Science = rivista italiana di biblioteconomia, archivistica e scienza dell'informazione), ISSN 2038-1026, Vol. 5, No. 1 (January 2014), p. 265-277. DOI: 10.4403/jlis.it-9083.